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American Gods: Every God In The TV Show, Ranked

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4. MEDIA

As the mouthpiece for the new gods, Media makes her play for Shadow very quickly. She is the ultimate personification of television, worshipped by the millions of Americans who cannot go a day without sitting down in front of the box to indulge. Clearly, she’s one of the more powerful gods involved in the story.

Offering Shadow a place to work away from Mr. Wednesday and alongside the new gods, Media does her best to poach the story’s protagonist, taking on a variety of characters from the small screen such as Lucy Ricardo from I Love Lucy and Diane from Cheers while doing so.

Gillian Anderson will be seen stepping into the role in the Starz series, slated to be appearing in seven episodes, but as you can see from the image above, a lot of what will be involved in regards to her character is being kept under wraps. When it comes to the small screen adaptation of the American Gods story, it certainly looks like we’ll be delving deeper into the personification of each character than ever before. Media is one of those characters who could provide a wealth of exciting new material in the TV series.

American Gods: Every God In The TV Show, Ranked

On American Gods…

I just wanted to make a little post because I’ve just been privy to watch the first episode of American Gods, and I absolutely loved it!
No spoilers, don’t worry for those who haven’t read the book, but it’s absolutely fantastic, gracious and mysterious. You see the first five minutes and you know already it’s a Bryan Fuller series. The aesthetic is just pure beauty even in blood, it looks a lot like Hannibal in the graphisme, the sounds, the colors without being as slow and comtenplative that Hannibal could have been. The dialogues can be funny in the tragic, it’s brilliant..
When it ends, you don’t know exactly what just happened, but in a good way, it was literally an experience, and Gillian isn’t even in it.
I can’t wait to see more!

The Women of American Gods Get to Actually Be People – The Geekiary

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Easter- who only appears three or four times in the novel- not only gets a bigger role, she also gets a best friend. Chenoweth described Easter and Media (Gillian Anderson) as BFFs, and told us, “There’s a moment where they have a moment.” Easter is a character who is nice and civil on the inside but boiling mad on the inside, and Chenoweth hopes that she will eventually get her hands dirty. “It’s fun to watch a character that looks a certain way actually not be.”

 

*And this is the moment, I die.*

The Women of American Gods Get to Actually Be People – The Geekiary

The American Gods TV Series Isn’t Afraid to Go Full-On Weird, and That’s What Makes It Great

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Gillian Anderson is also great as neo-goddess Media, channeling the hypnotic allure of modern entertainment’s glowing screens and disembodied voices with a wry Southern Belle affectation that seems to reference Mae West.

American Gods gets shot in a hyper-stylized mode that feels slightly distended at times: the colors flirt with being too intense and some camera angles will make you want to tilt your head to better understand the visual data. It exhibits much of the same whimsy seen in other shows where executive producer Bryan Fuller was involved.

The American Gods TV Series Isn’t Afraid to Go Full-On Weird, and That’s What Makes It Great

‘American Gods’: Gillian Anderson Talks Judy Garland, ‘Hannibal’ Reunion

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“His pitch to me was probably a description of the opportunity of getting to embody some pretty extraordinary characters, and whether I was up for that challenge,” Anderson tells EW of reuniting with the Hannibal creator. “And that’s probably all I really needed to know. Even though I hadn’t read the book, I’m a fan of Neil Gaiman’s work, so ultimately it was those two things… no matter what it looked like on the page, it was going to be something that I wanted to be involved in.”

‘American Gods’: Gillian Anderson Talks Judy Garland, ‘Hannibal’ Reunion